Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very...

The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring...

"beech-tree" hence "dweller by the beech tree". People called Beeching include:- Henry Beeching (1859–1919) clergyman, author and poet Jack Beeching (John...

Oh, Doctor Beeching! is a BBC television sitcom, written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, and produced for the BBC. After a pilot for the programme...

Richard Clyde Beech (1893–1955) was a revolutionary industrial unionist. He was the delegate for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to the 2nd...

restructuring programme of British railways known as the Beeching cuts (overseen by Richard Beeching), and though it has been disused since then the viaduct...

(1951–1953) Sir Brian Robertson (1953–1961) Dr Richard Beeching (1961–1963) British Railways Board Dr Richard Beeching (1963–1965) Sir Stanley Raymond (1965–1967)...

Archive. Richard Beeching "The Reshaping of British Railways", p. 15. Lord Stoneham (1963). "The Economics and Social Aspects of the Beeching Plan". House...

the Major Trunk Routes (sometimes known as the "second Beeching Report", although Richard Beeching had little input) which identifies routes to be targeted...

Grinstead - Baron Richard Beeching". 21 February 2001. Archived from the original on 21 February 2001. "It looks like Dr Beeching was too hasty after...

before the publication of 'The Reshaping of British Railways' by Dr Richard Beeching in March 1963. The East Somerset Railway Company was incorporated under...

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America. There are 13 accepted species in two...

some local residents wanted to call this section the "Beeching Cut". Instead, it was named Beeching Way. To the south of East Grinstead the A22 crosses...

21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908) March 23 Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913) Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist...

railroad corporations in defense of the small farmers. Richard Beeching – household name as chairman of British Rail (1961-1964) famous for Beeching cuts....

result of the Beeching Axe (a programme of closures put forward by East Grinstead resident and British Railways Board Chairman Richard Beeching). A part medieval...

estate named "Beechings" occupies much of the station's site, somewhat ironically given that it was British Rail Chairman Richard Beeching whose report...

Minister Ernest Marples appointed Richard Beeching as head of British Railways with a brief to cut the spiralling losses. Beeching was a businessman rather than...

1960s, many routes were closed under the "Beeching Axe", plus some after the resignation of Dr Richard Beeching - most notoriously the Waverley Line from...

September. He held the position until 1961, when he was succeeded by Dr Richard Beeching. In the end, the task of modernising the railway system proved to be...

during the mid-1960s. Dr. Richard Beeching was given the task by the government of re-organising the railways ("the Beeching Axe"). This policy resulted...

recruited an able, young metallurgist to work for him, Richard Beeching. After the war, Beeching went on to continue working for Ewart Smith at ICI. When...

David Richard Beech MBE (born 1954) was the curator of the British Library Philatelic Collections from 1983–2013. He is a fellow and past president of...

related to James Beeching. Covent Garden II (Caister Lifeboat built by Beeching in 1883). The Boys/Godsend (Caister Lifeboat built by Beeching in 1867)....

Gulf Coast Limited passenger train makes its final run. March 23 - Richard Beeching, chairman of the British Railways Board 1961–1965 (b. 1913). (June...

coach (d. 1997) Karl Rawer, German physicist (d. 2018) April 21 – Richard Beeching, chairman of British Rail (d. 1985) April 27 – Philip Hauge Abelson...

closed this railway as well. In 1962, on the recommendation of Dr Richard Beeching, the Government of Northern Ireland commissioned a senior Coopers &...

1981 – Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b. 1940) 1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913) 1985 – Peter Charanis...

it was Dr Richard Beeching who, in his report Reshaping Britain's Railways, advanced the concept of containerised freight in the UK. Beeching proposed...

Technical School for Boys from 1924 to 1926. Richard Beeching (1913–1985), commonly known simply as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short...